they've all liked it very much um both i
mean ishwaria had a very very emotional
reaction to it
she saw it obviously a couple of weeks
ago
your mind your brain is
possibly the most important organ in
your body
why do we still shy away from addressing
a trained professional to deal with
issues with the mind as well
i think today's children are a lot more
advanced and intelligent
than when we were their age so their
their grasp of what's going on around
them is a lot more
uh so there's the they're up for
something here you don't need to explain
anything to them
congratulations on 20 years thank you it
is a
huge huge feat and you have delivered
some great performances
thank you
firstly tell me one thing um when you
look
at avi as a character whom do you see
a murderer or a father for me in that
sense
you know it's all all in a sense the
same
because um it's been a character which
has been very very challenging for me
it's been a character which i thoroughly
enjoyed doing it was tough work
but a character that had so many
complexities and so many challenges and
so many subtexts and layers um
that it was it was very exciting to play
so it's very difficult for me to choose
that
if i had to answer the question that you
know what do i see do i see him as
a father or do i see him as a murderer
um
i think you should see the show and you
all should decide and let me know i also
want to know because like you said that
such a role can be very taxing you know
uh it can take a toll on you as well
because uh
at one point for this father and on the
other hand
you are also doing a lot of things but
only so that you can ensure the safety
of your child
at the end at the end of the day did it
at any point
get to you of course i mean your work is
always very
close to your heart your work is always
something which which kind of consumes
you
and it becomes very difficult to
demarcate between your personal life and
your professional life
so um it is it it is a challenge at
times and there are times where
your personal life does bleed into your
professional work as well
but this was a very demanding uh it was
a very demanding role
uh more emotionally because the you know
mayank the director
had written it so beautifully with
bhavani and vikrantulli and
arshad that you know they explored every
look and cranny of
a parent's emotion and um you know if
you've seen breed season one the one
common link that comes through is
is a theme which is how far would you go
for your family
yeah and um it's it's actually a very
interesting question which we all think
we have the answers for
until you're put into a situation in
real life that you actually have to
choose
and uh it's amazing what you learn about
yourself under those circumstances
how did everyone in family react to the
trailer because everyone
outside the family is loving it they're
showering it with love what did i be
uh um
well they've all they've all liked it
very much um
both i mean ishwaria had a very very
emotional reaction to it
she saw it obviously a couple of weeks
ago
my father and the rest of the family
have really liked it
they're excited about it i i think on
some level also
i mean i'm i'm part of the family so
that emotion
of a member of your family coming up
with some work obviously is going to
override
their professional ability to to judge
it professionally
but everybody's very excited they're
looking forward to seeing it
you know officially this also marks your
uh debut on digital platform right
um how exciting do you see uh this
entire avenue because
now web is growing and how does it also
give you more wings as an actor because
here you can
actually experiment with a lot of things
which perhaps might not get to work
freedom uh
to a certain extent i mean that's that's
an interesting point of view and i
i have to admit that i would agree
partially with this
and when i say partially what i mean is
i think
they're two very different mediums which
require two very different
approaches i think for cinema there's
certain things that you can do you can't
do
and uh for a you know for
for like say a series like we've made
him breathe the things that you can do
and you shouldn't do
um i think you're kind of catering to a
different aspect of an audience
you're not catering to a different
audience
um a show like breathe
what's wonderful about it is that you
can sit with your family and watch it
right you can also see it in the
intimacy of just
a one-on-one viewing with yourself um
i don't find something which is majorly
a lot of sex and stuff there's not that
kind of stuff
in our show um yes i would say
um it's not something you should just
leave i would i would i mean if you have
to classify that say parental guidance
would be
required to show the younger members of
your family but
um it's a it's something that i i'm
pretty confident you can sit down with
your entire family
so that's nice about it yeah you play a
psychiatrist
um in the in the series i without any
context here i want to ask you how do
you how important do you think is
for anyone to address mental health
issues especially
uh because though we talk about it i
feel that
talking about mental health and
understanding mental health are two very
different things
while we talk about mental health a lot
of people don't
understand the importance of it do you
do you sort of believe in that as well
i don't i think i i'd like to disagree
with you there if that's okay
i don't think um there's there's a
i feel sadly there's still a bit of
stigma
associated with it
so
your mind your brain is
possibly the most important organ in
your body
why do we still shy away from addressing
a trained professional to deal with
issues with the mind as well
what's the problem so first of all you
have to remove the stigma in society
saying that so why would you have a
problem admitting to the fact that
you're going to seek professional help
for a certain mental condition that you
perceive you might have
so i think that is something we need to
do away with
i mean it's not the way i was brought up
uh we are very open about everything and
i think that's the way it should be that
too many
i think society has built up too many
walls around certain things which need
to be deconstructed
true i completely agree with you there
um
i wish you 20 years in the industry uh
in retrospect if you have to think
what has been the best best i i know
it's a very difficult question because
20 years
what was that defining moment for you if
you have to
share i think the most defining moment
is your first step
into the industry i think the first day
that
you go for your shooting and the first
time you ever face the camera
i think that is the most defining moment
because that defines what you're going
to be and what your future is going to
be like
and i think any actor is immensely lucky
and blessed
if they get the opportunity to be a part
of a film i
i thank my stars and i thank god and my
family and my fans every time they
give me an opportunity to make a film uh
you
you know any actor is very very lucky to
be given the opportunity to work in
films
but in 20 years would you like to change
anything at all
uh regarding your journey if given a
chance of course so many things you'd
want to write a lot of the wrongs
you'd want to do a better job at
whatever you did
um there's always scope for improvement
always
right and tell me how has the lock down
period been for you
and especially because you know i had is
so small right now for children to
understand that they have to be inside
the house for these purposes how did you
make her understand that this is so
important right now
i think today's children are a lot more
advanced and intelligent
than when we were their age so their
their grasp of what's going on around
them is a lot more
uh so this they were up for some time
here you don't need to explain anything
for them
uh but the lockdown has been fine it is
what it is
you can't run away from it you know
philosophically or figuratively speaking
um you know and i i think the silver
lining is it's been wonderful to get
time with the family um you know
which is something that in our household
hardly ever happens because everybody's
working
so it's been nice to have the family
around and spend time with the family
um you know we have to uh whatever the
rules are you have to obey them follow
them we've been very good with it
i've always liked to look at the
brighter side of life so for me it's
just been a wonderful three four months
it has been testing it's difficult i'm
sure for everybody
but the point is i got to spend time
with my with my parents i got to spend
time with my wife
and my child so i'm happy for that but
did you at any point feel paranoid i
think the attitude you have to do is do
the best you can to be
as safe as possible and if there is a
condition and if you do manage to
somehow unluckily contract
the virus you must obviously intimate
the people that
you require and take corrective measures
immediately i was pretty practical about
it i had
checks and balances in place we have
thorough sanitization that happens
anytime you come in and out of the house
obviously washing your hands
keeping surfaces clean uh being as
hygienic as possible being as careful as
possible you know i have two aged
parents that live at home my father's 78
my mother's 72
i have a eight-year-old daughter uh so
we have to be very careful there are
sensitive age groups
in and around my house um but i would
i would not say that i was paranoid no
not at all i think if anything i'd like
to believe i was prepared
you can never be completely prepared and
then you have to deal with whatever
happens and
um you know deal with it the way you're
meant to i think the government has done
a great job of
laying out the rules of what needs to be
done and what shouldn't be done and if
there is a problem if somebody
has tested positive then what are the
steps the bmc
has been doing a great job in mumbai
yeah so we've been
we've been following all the rules so
far we've been lucky and fine
thank you so much my pleasure